People who eat melon are in 70 - Chapter 10

A bunch of old ladies, including Xu Dazui, were silent for a while, then they laughed.

Xu Dazui laughed the loudest: “You are a grown-up girl; why are you listening to these? Aren’t you ashamed?”

Jiang Youtao said with a sigh: “It’s not that I have to listen; you are just talking, and I just want to listen. Besides, you are not ashamed to talk; why should I be ashamed to listen?”

Xu Dazui and the old ladies looked at each other and felt that, although Jiang Youtao looked thin, weak, and pretty, she was unexpectedly to their liking.

It’s not that there were no educated youths who came to their group before. When they heard them say these things, their faces turned red like red monkey butts. They stayed away from them when they worked afterward as if they had some disease. They thought it was boring.

Jiang Youtao was the first one to ask about the follow-up.

Xu Dazui and the others laughed to themselves, and Jiang Youtao remained calm.

Xu Dazui smiled enough and then said: “What else can happen next? The little wife’s man caught this incident; she was beaten up, her husband’s father-in-law was also beaten up, and the two families broke up.”

Jiang Youtao raised an eyebrow: “They aren’t divorced?”

Xu Dazui said: “You city people are just like Huahua. You can’t get divorced. There is no such thing as divorce in our village. It’s so difficult to get a wife these days. Just live with her if you can. Besides, I already have children, but I don’t know what it will be like to marry another one.”

As soon as Xu Dazui finished speaking, the woman named Fourth Aunt Jiang next to her said, “That’s not true. Then again, whose seed are the two children that the little wife gave birth to?” As soon as these words came out, the four or five women looked at each other and laughed again. After laughing, Xu Dazui asked: “What is your name?” The captain asked them to introduce themselves, but women like Xu Dazui didn’t remember it at all. Anyway, it’s been a long time, so don’t they already know their names? Why bother?

“Jiang Youtao.”

Xu Dazui clapped her hands: “Your name is really weird, peach; it’s so hard to pronounce; it’s better to call it peach.”

“You can call it whatever you want.” Jiang Youtao was not upset about this. In her previous life, anyone who had a good relationship with her called her peach, and she was used to it.

Jiang Si’s aunt said: “You are a good girl; I like you. Just work with us in the future, with us sisters, you will definitely be full.”

Although Xu Dazui’s group talked a lot, they were not slow to work alone. In just a short while, they had already pulled out a long way.

Jiang Youtao followed with all her strength to listen to gossip, and now both hands were not her own.

Jiang Youtao sighed in her heart, saying that she had paid too much for eating melons.

“Then I’ll trouble you aunts to take care of melons in the future.” Jiang Youtao didn’t expect to be taken care of, but what if they really took care of her? Right.

Xu Dazui and her friends started talking about other people’s affairs again, and this time they talked about what Jiang Youtao wanted to hear.

“It is said that the boy from the Lin family has been discharged from the army and will return home next month.” If Jiang Youtao was right about the boy from the Lin family mentioned by Aunt Jiang, then he must be Gu Nianwei’s man, Lin Jianzhong.

“Didn’t he say that he was doing well in the army? Why does he want to retire? A few days ago, Zhao Chunhua and I went to the back mountain to collect firewood. She told me how outstanding her son was.

Zhao Chunhua is Lin Jianzhong’s mother.

“It must be because of his sons. Since Lin Jianzhong’s wife died the year before last, you all know how she treats her grandsons. If I were Lin Jianzhong, I would come back too.”

Zhao Chunhua is a figure in Liushugou. She is famous for her partiality. Even though she praises Lin Jianzhong so much outside, she still cares about her youngest son, Lin Jianhua.

Ever since Lin Jianzhong’s wife Wang Lili passed away, Lin Jianzhong’s three sons have been treated like weeds in front of her. Compared with their plump, clean, well-dressed appearance when Wang Lili was around, they are now dark and thin and look pitiful. In the past, who didn’t like the two older sons of Lin Jianzhong’s family in the village? Now they are disgusted to see them. It’s hard to see anything wrong with the younger one; after all, he is only two years old and can’t even speak complete sentences.

Compared with the three children of Lin Jianzhong’s family, the children of Lin Jianhua’s family have gained weight visibly.

Although people in the village don’t say it, they all know it clearly in their hearts.

Xu Dazui said, “That’s true. If my children are treated like this, I will crawl out of the grave even if I die.”

The three children in Lin Jianzhong’s family not only have poor food and clothing but are also always beaten. The eldest and the second child are twins. They are only seven years old and have already gone to work in the fields with children in their teens. They earn two or three work points every day.

Families in the village who can make ends meet will not let such young children work.

Jiang Youtao did not say anything, but the woman named Aunt Zhang next to Aunt Jiang spoke: “I heard from my husband that Wei Hong is planning to find another wife for Lin Jianzhong and is already looking for one.“

The man that Second Aunt Zhang married is from the Lin family in the village. According to seniority, Lin Jianzhong should call her Second Aunt. The Wei Hong she mentioned is Lin Jianzhong’s aunt, who also married in the same village. Her husband and the team leader are brothers.

Lin Weihong is very kind to her nephew, Lin Jianzhong. If it weren’t for her support in the past two years, it is not certain whether the three children could survive.

Fourth Aunt Jiang lowered her voice: “I heard about it, too. I also heard that she has her eyes on the educated youth from our village, the one with the surname Gu. You know what. Lin Weihong has a good eye. The educated youth Gu is good at work and is very beautiful. “

There are no secrets in the village. Lin Weihong’s secret plan had long been known by these idle women.

However, the educated youth were not close to the villagers. They believed that it was better to do less than more, not to cause trouble, and to watch the fun, so they would not go to Gu Nianwei to remind them.

They were all villagers, and they knew what the Lin family was like, but outsiders didn’t know. What if the surname Gu was willing? Wouldn’t it be annoying for them to gossip in front of others?

Besides, Lin Jianzhong was the deputy battalion commander in the army. After his retirement, his unit would not be bad, and he would not look bad. Although he had three sons, they were not old. If they were raised well, wouldn’t they be almost the same as her own sons?

On the surface, it was more or less a good marriage.

They didn’t care about Jiang Youtao on their backs, nor were they afraid that Jiang Youtao would go tell Gu Nianwei that. They are not afraid, even if Lin Huijuan confronts them. Is Lin Weihong afraid of others knowing about it?

In the blink of an eye, it was noon. Xu Dazui and others heard the sound of the gong, threw away the grass in their hands, stood up, and walked home.

It was like this in the collective era. When the gong was struck, it was time to go home. No one would do more work.

Jiang Youtao saw them leaving and followed them. Just after leaving the soybean field, she saw Gu Nianwei waiting for her on the side of the road. Jiang Youtao walked a few steps faster.

Gu Nianwei said to Jiang Youtao, “How do you feel about your first day of work?”

When Gu Nianwei crossed over, her body had already gone to the countryside, but she still felt exhausted when she went to work for the first time.

It was not spring yet. She not only had to dig winter manure but also rub hemp. It was cold and frozen. If she hadn’t had frostbite cream in her space, she would probably have lost her hands.

“It’s very tiring. Look, my hands are red.” The land in the Northeast is fertile, crops grow well, and grass grows fast.

The grass that was pulled today grew wildly after the rain a few days ago. Jiang Youtao could name two or three of them, including bone grass, mugwort, and dandelions. There were also several other species that she couldn’t name.

Gu Nianwei looked down and saw that there were indeed several marks on Jiang Youtao’s slender and fair hands. She said, “I have a pair of unused gloves. You can use them first. When you have a day off, you can go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some and return them to me.”

Gu Nianwei had countless labor protection supplies in her space. Giving Jiang Youtao a pair was not a big deal, but brothers should settle accounts clearly. What should be returned should still be returned. Otherwise, if you treat someone too well for a long time, great kindness will turn into great hatred.

Jiang Youtao originally planned to go back and take advantage of the system. After Gu Nianwei said this, she thought for a while and agreed generously: “Okay, then thank you first. I will return it to you when I buy it at the supply and marketing cooperative.”

Gu Nianwei smiled and nodded, and the two walked towards the educated youth point together.

When entering the village, two children who looked exactly the same ran towards them. One of them didn’t run steadily, tripped over his left foot, and fell to the ground with a bang, right in front of Gu Nianwei.

Gu Nianwei cried out in pain and quickly squatted down to help him up: “Are you Lin Wen’an or Lin Wenping? Why are you running so fast? Did you fall?”

Jiang Youtao was stunned by Gu Nianwei’s familiar attitude towards the child, and then she remembered.

In order to make everything more reasonable and logical, the author of the book stated that Gu Nianwei has liked children since she was a child. She studied early childhood education in college, but because her family was not short of money, she did not go to work after graduation and became a rent collector at home.

In the book, before Lin Jianzhong and Gu Nianwei went on a blind date, she had met Lin Jianzhong’s three sons and had great sympathy for them.

The reason why she went on a blind date with Lin Jianzhong was that she couldn’t let go of these three children, and she agreed to it because she saw Lin Jianzhong’s deep love for his three children.

After marriage, she treated Lin Jianzhong’s three children as her own and educated them very well. She even gave up her own children for them. After she found out she was pregnant, she took the initiative to abort the child.

Lin Jianzhong was very angry when he found out, and this became a very sensational scene in the book, adding a few bricks to the love between the two.

Jiang Youtao really couldn’t help but look at Gu Nianwei a few more times. After a few days of getting along, she really didn’t see that there was a hole in Gu Nianwei’s head.

It could also be that the hole in Gu Nianwei’s head was too secret, and it would only emerge when she met Lin Jianzhong?

Just when Jiang Youtao was thinking, Lin Jianzhong’s two sons had already run away. Gu Nianwei stood up and walked to Jiang Youtao: “What are you daydreaming about?” Jiang Youtao

shook her head: “It’s okay.”

As soon as the voice fell, a middle-aged woman wearing orchid cloth and no headscarf waved to Gu Nianwei from a distance: “Xiao Gu, Xiao Gu.”

Gu Nianwei turned her head, looked at the person, and shouted to the person: “Aunt Wei Hong.”

She said to Jiang Youtao again: “You go back first; I’ll go see what Aunt Wei Hong wants to say, and I’ll catch up with you in a while.”

“Okay.” When Jiang Youtao left, she looked at the person called Aunt Wei Hong again and felt that the woman who smiled particularly warmly and gently was written with the word cunning from head to toe.

Who would introduce a knowledgeable, cultured, and seemingly not poor young woman of the right age to a man whose wife died and brought three sons and a mess at home as a partner?